Conquest of Tripoli

The Conquest of Tripoli (July 1510) was a Spanish colonial campaign in Libya that occurred during Spain's wars with the Hafsid dynasty. On 25 July 1510, Pedro Navarro's Spanish fleet, carrying 6,000 marines, arrived in front of Tripoli, proceeding to besiege the city. Employing the use of naval artillery, the Habsburg forces succeeded in conquering the city from the Moors, and Spain ceded it to the Knights of St. John in 1524; the Ottoman Empire conquered the city in 1551.